The Reading Critical Will website provides statements from different parties present at the Third Meeting of State Parties on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, as well as overall highlights from the conference. To dissect the treaty, its history and current state, here is a small document that provides a brief introduction and…
Janet Fenton, Secure Scotland, is reflecting on what the UN third meeting of the State Parties to the TPNW will mean for its progress, and what to expect when States meet for its first Review Meeting in 2026. This May will see the final preparative meeting for the Nuclear Non – Proliferation Treaty (NPT) before…
Lynn Jamieson, Chair of Scottish CND is with the Scottish delegation at the 3rd meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the UN in New York. “The Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s role is to expose the everyday harms of the nuclear weapons in our midst and the…
Rhys Munro’s account of the Parliamentarian’s Conference at the 3rd Meeting of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. These parliamentarians (including Bill Kidd MSP) are from states which have not yet joined the Treaty. As you walk into Conference Room 8 in the basement of the UN Headquarters, the…
Elena Kerr writes on the events she attended at the 3rd Meeting of the TPNW in New York on Monday 3rd March Listen to and hear our Anangu StoryThis side event was hosted by the Nuclear Truth Project where the main speaker was Karina Lester, a second-generation survivor of the British nuclear test at Emu…
Áine Beattie, 1st March 2025. The Third Meeting of States Parties (3MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will convene from 3 to 7 March 2025, with Ambassador Akan Rakhmetullin of Kazakhstan presiding. Discussions will focus on advancing the Treaty’s implementation and fostering multilateral cooperation for nuclear disarmament. There is a strong…
Scottish disarmament campaigners are getting ready for the week of high-level and civil-society events to tackle the urgent threat of nuclear weapons at Nuclear Ban Week New York, 2025. Some will be reporting the events here and on their own websites and in the press, some will be submitting working papers and some will be attending…
In setting the Clock one second closer to midnight, the Science and Security Board sends a stark signal: Because the world is already perilously close to the precipice, a move of even a single second should be taken as an indication of extreme danger and an unmistakable warning that every second of delay in reversing…
We banned the bomb on the 7 July 2017, the day that the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted at the United Nations. The next step was to get enough UN Member States to sign and ratify it in their own countries,, and when the first fifty states states did that, on…
A meaningful and inspiring event took place on Tuesday, December 10thin the form of a torchlight procession from The Scottish Parliament to Queen Elizabeth House to mark the Nobel Peace prize celebrations in Oslo, and reaffirm Scotland’s commitment to nuclear disarmament. This year the Nobel Peace Prize was won by Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese Confederation of A- and H- Bomb Sufferers…